It’s just pronounce but then you take away some of the letters for some reason!

And some words, you pronounce the root differently if you add a suffix. There’s no rhyme or reason for why, you just do.

Yeah, the first computer I remember in our house, I was 4, it was MSDOS, and my mom knew how to run everything, so she obviously had an understanding of command and all that. To this day, she’s still incredibly tech illiterate. Her current improved status is emailing me shit that looks phishy so I can figure things out for her. I still get the calls that “something is wrong,” and I need to go unfuck things a little. It’s funny.

Artists are anal. Artisanal.

I agree with what you’re saying but your commas are literally killing me.

They’ve absolutely gotten better. And I’ll caveat what I’m about to say with I’m neither a user nor a fan of AI, but people are doing real shit with it, and the only hope we have is that it will usher forward technological advancement. Obviously, I’m on Lemmy, and so what I think is that it’ll fucking doom society, but I have very left leaning friends who are also very deep in tech, and they are fully on board the AI train.

And so I’m just some dummy, I don’t know my ass from a hole in the ground, and so at this point, and for my whole life, I guess, past, present and future, in just along for the ride, and should shit go awry, I’ll rely on the same thing man has relied on for as long as man has existed.

A minute and 34 seconds into Imperials by Ratatat was always the one for me. There’s a bunch of the ones, but this one came to mind first.

Fantastic, I’ve been trying to replace my coke habit. Just need to smuggle this into the US.

I feel like it’s also missing Denise Richards.

I mean, it’s a show versus a movie, apples and oranges. And Joe Dirt is a classic.

Credit where it’s due!

America Bad, of course!

Don’t lump the entire country in with wherever you are, because I can go to plenty of places within walking distance of my home – in the United States – and just hang out, hard, and it’s fine.

There’s plenty of places by me where you can do this, and I live in the most dense state in America.

In fairness, taxis in NYC were the wild west for a bit, it was bullshit, and Uber put them in their place. But yeah, as with all things, it’s all fucked now.

You can add gap to your regular insurance to cover your job as a rideshare. You just need to tell your carrier.

The thing is, if you’re renting, you’ve added someone in between you and the insurance carrier. Uber does not self insure. I see them often using Progressive. So you rent a car from Uber, pay for the insurance from Uber, but there’s also Avis and Progressive now taking their cut.

It’s just scammy, and the fact that they’re getting people to rent cars to do so is just crazy to me.

So Avis, for example, offers an insurance from Uber for rideshare via Rasier and Portier, and so you’re basically renting and insuring cars from the company you’re being paid by. Yes, Avis is an intermediary there, but the whole idea is crazy to me, that you’d pay your employer to work.

So are they having profitable days? I guess I’m as curious as you are, but I just can’t imagine a scenario where you’re making decent money in exchange for the time you put in. I suppose reliance on tips makes the difference, but Uber is over here cleaning up, charging you and the customer.

Please don’t duh.

Renting a car for use as a ride share is not covered under any rental agreement, nor under whatever your credit card may provide, which as far as I know covers damage to the vehicle at most. Liability insurance is a whole separate animal and the one that’s most necessary.

Renting doesn’t mean no insurance. If you’re operating a vehicle, you need to be an insured driver. Where you get the insurance is up to you.

Depreciation, maintenance, those are lumped into the cost of the rental. Whomever you are renting from isn’t giving you the car and taking a loss on it.

It’s essentially an independent business, but you can rent the car and get insurance and get paid all by the same entity, essentially. At least that’s what I’ve gathered listening to the testimony of some of the drivers.

People rent cars to do it, which just blows my mind. I don’t get how they can be making any money at all.